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When most people hear "dividend," their brain goes straight to stocks. That's understandable. And completely wrong when applied to whole life insurance. https://www.youtube.com/live/HPXaTnOOU4U That one assumption causes real problems. People chase companies with the highest declared dividend rate. They compare illustrations side by side and pick the bigger number. They make decisions based on a metric that, on its own, tells them almost nothing about how their policy will actually perform. This article gives you a clear picture of what whole life dividends actually are, what they're not, and what really determines whether your policy works for you over the long run. The conclusion is probably not what you'd expect: the most important factor isn't the dividend rate, the company, or even the policy design. It's your own behavior.For a deep dive into how dividends are calculated and the four biggest myths about dividend rates, see our earlier conversation with Perry Miller here. Table of ContentsKey TakeawaysWhat Whole Life Dividends Actually AreHow the Money Actually MovesNot Guaranteed, but Highly ProbableThe Coca-Cola AnalogyWhat Whole Life Dividends Are NotNot Stock DividendsNot a Simple Interest Rate on Your Cash ValueNot in Addition to the Guaranteed Interest RateHow Dividends Are Actually Allocated to Your PolicyThe Endowment RequirementWhy Younger Policyholders Get a Smaller ShareWhy Base Premium Gets Higher Crediting Than PUAsThe Direct vs. Non-Direct Recognition DistinctionWhy the Dividend Rate Is the Wrong Thing to CompareThe Factor That Matters More Than Any of This: Your Own BehaviorWhy Premium Consistency MattersWhy Loan Repayment Matters Just as MuchThe Bottom Line on BehaviorHow to Use Your Dividends StrategicallyStop Chasing the Rate. Start Building the SystemBook a Strategy CallFrequently Asked QuestionsWhat are whole life insurance dividends?Are whole life dividends guaranteed?How are whole life dividends different from stock dividends?Does a higher dividend rate mean a better whole life policy?What is the best way to use whole life dividends?What is direct vs. non-direct recognition in whole life insurance? Key Takeaways Dividends are return of excess premium. What happens between your payment and your dividend is capital management, not a refund. A 6% declared rate does not mean 6% cash value growth. Actual growth depends on Age, base-to-PUA ratio, and other policy design options. Loan activity can also affect results with direct recognition companies. The guaranteed interest rate is not separate but makes up part of the declared dividend. 2% guarantee plus 6% dividend does not equal 8%. Younger policyholders get less of the dividend pool. Older policyholders get more. Endowment math. Base premium gets higher crediting than PUAs because the company can count on it. Never compare direct and non-direct recognition illustrations without modeling loan activity in both. Your behavior matters more than the rate, the company, or the design. What Whole Life Dividends Actually Are For tax purposes, the IRS classifies whole life dividends as a return of excess premium. That label gets used against whole life all the time. "See? They're just giving your money back." It's not. If you paid $500,000 into a policy over twenty years and now you have $1.7 million in cash value, nobody just gave your money back. You have far more than you paid in. How the Money Actually Moves Insurance companies are extremely conservative in their projections. They overestimate mortality costs, overestimate expenses, and lowball what their investment portfolio will return. That's deliberate. It protects your money for the long run. The CIO deploys premiums into a portfolio that's roughly 75 to 85 percent fixed income: bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and some real estate. A small sliver sits in equities. The company pays death benefit claims, pays operating expenses, and sets aside money into reserves. Then the board declares how much of the remaining surplus goes back to policyholders. Three factors drive that surplus: investment performance against projections, operating expenses against budget, and actual mortality experience against actuarial estimates. Beat expectations on any of those, and policyholders share in it. Not Guaranteed, but Highly Probable Dividends sit outside the contractual promises; unlike the death benefit, the cash value growth, and the level premium, they're not guaranteed. But mutual companies have paid them consistently for over 100 years. Through recessions. World wars. The 2008 crisis. A decade of near-zero rates. They adjusted downward. They didn't vanish. The Coca-Cola Analogy Coca-Cola has excess profits because they charge more per can than they need to. That's how they fund dividends to shareholders. A mutual insurance company works the same way. It prices conservatively, manages capital, and returns the surplus. But here's the difference. As a policyholder of a mutual company, you're not just a customer. You're a part-owner. You participate in your company's profits. What Whole Life Dividends Are Not Not Stock Dividends Stock dividends are volatile, taxable in the year received, and are subject to cuts or elimination in a bad year based on economic factors that swing wildly.  Whole life dividends from mutual companies are non-taxable (classified as return of premium), built on actuarial science rather than market speculation, and backed by a stability track record that equity dividends simply can't match. Even during the financial crisis of 2008, when bond rates dropped and stayed down for over a decade, mutual companies adjusted their dividend rates. They didn't collapse. They didn't plummet to near zero. They adjusted. Not a Simple Interest Rate on Your Cash Value This is the misconception that causes the most confusion. If a company declares a 6% dividend, that does not mean your cash value grows by 6% that year. You can't just take 6% and apply it to your current cash value. There's a list of reasons why. That declared rate is gross, before administrative fees, before mortality costs, and before the actuarial mechanics that make your policy endow at age 120 or 121. The actual impact on any individual policy depends on the policyholder's age, the ratio of base premium to PUAs, other policy design options.  Additionally, if with a direct recongnition company, whether there are outstanding loans. Same rate but very different outcome depending on who you are and what you're doing with the policy. Not in Addition to the Guaranteed Interest Rate This trips people up constantly. They see a guaranteed interest rate of 2% and a declared dividend of 6% and assume they're getting 8% growth. That's not how it works. The guaranteed rate is already inside the dividend. The company guarantees it can make at least 2%. If it earns enough to support a 6% crediting rate, the additional performance above the 2% floor is what generates the dividend.  So the real outperformance is 4 percentage points and not 6 stacked on top of two. How Dividends Are Actually Allocated to Your Policy This is the part that goes beyond what most dividend conversations cover. And it matters if you want to understand what your dividend actually means for your specific policy. The Endowment Requirement Every whole life policy is contractually engineered to endow at age 120 or 121. That means your cash value and your death benefit will be equal at that point. This isn't a footnote buried in the contract.  It's the mathematical engine driving how dividends get allocated. The company has to make sure every policy's cash value reaches the death benefit by that endowment date, regardless of what the markets do along the way. Why Younger Policyholders Get a Smaller Share Contrast a 20-year-old and a 60-year-old. Both paying $10,000 per year into a whole life policy.  The same premium and the same declared dividend rate. They receive very different dividend credits. The 20-year-old has 100 years until endowment. That cash value has an enormous runway to compound. Less dividend is needed today because time does the heavy lifting.  The 60-year-old has only 60 years. Their cash value needs a bigger share of the dividend pool to close the gap between cash value and death benefit faster. Same rate but a very different allocation. And it's not unfair. It's contractual. The policy promises to endow at a specific age, and the actuarial math allocates accordingly. Why Base Premium Gets Higher Crediting Than PUAs Base premium is the portion you're contractually obligated to pay every year. The company knows it's coming. The CIO can plan investment decisions around that certainty and deploy capital with confidence. Paid-up additions are optional. You don't have to pay them. The Chief Investment Officer can't rely on PUA contributions the same way when making long-term decisions. There's a second factor too, with base premium, the death benefit relative to the premium amount is much higher.  A policyholder paying $100,000 in base premium might carry a death benefit of $800,000 or $1 million. That cash value has to close a gap of $700,000 to $900,000 by endowment.  But $100,000 of PUA premium might only buy $200,000 of death benefit, because it's already paid up. It only needs to grow by $100,000 over the same period. So the dividend has to work harder on the base side. More crediting goes there, especially in the first 20 to 30 years. If someone funds PUAs religiously for three decades and the PUA's death benefit grows to exceed the base death benefit, the crediting can equalize. But until then, base drives the dividend engine. The Direct vs. Non-Direct Recognition Distinction A non-direct recognition company credits the same dividend whether you've borrowe

02/27/26: Perry Miller and Nathan Berseth, Richland County Commissioners, are filling in for Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views." Erica Johnsrud is the Auditor for McKenzie County in North Dakota, and joins Nathan and Perry to chat about the election process and safety behind them. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

02/27/26: Joel Heitkamp is on vacation and has Richland County Commissioners, Nathan Berseth and Perry Miller, filling in for him on "News and Views." They're joined by Daniel Julson to talk about tax season, specifically digging into the taxing on tips, Trump accounts, deductions, and more. Daniel Julson graduated in 2015 from North Dakota State University with a degree in Agricultural Economics with an emphasis in Accounting. He received his CPA license in January 2017. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

11/14/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Perry Miller, Richland County Commissioner, and Randy Monson, the Mayor of Christine, North Dakota. An intersection on the west side of Christine is changing from a 2-way to 4-way stop due to high traffic volume and numerous speed violations and accidents. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jay Thomas Show from Thursday November 13th, 2025.  Guests include Randy Monson, Perry Miller and John Tranham.

10/29/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Richland County Commissioner and frequent guest-host, Perry Miller. There was a recent comment made by a Fargo City Commissioner that Richland County drops people experiencing homelessness off at Fargo truck stops, and Perry joins Joel to respond. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jay Thomas Show from Wednesday October 29th, 2025.  Guests include Perry Miller and your calls and emails.

06/13/25: Joel Heitkamp is out for the day, and Perry Miller fills in for him on "News and Views." Perry is a Richland County Commissioner from Wahpeton. He's joined on KFGO by Phil Hansen to talk about his work with the Becker County Commission. Phil is an NDSU alum and played 11 seasons for the Buffalo Bills from 1991-2001. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

06/13/25: Richland County Commissioner, Perry Miller, is filling in for Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views." He's joined on the radio by Minnesota State Senator, Grant Hauschild, to talk about the legislative session and his district. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/03/25: Perry Miller and Nathan Berseth are Richland County Commissioners, and are filling in for Joel while he's out. Nathan also serves on the NDHSAA Board of Directors representing the ND School Boards Association, and brings Amy De Kok on "News and Views" to talk about school choice and public dollars going to private schools. Amy De Kok is the Executive Director of the North Dakota School Board Association. (Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the first hour of The Sports Phone, Big Al and Robert The Bruce are live at the Country Club of Virginia for the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. Big Al brings on Dennis Bickmeier and Perry Miller to discuss all things NASCAR. Then Big Al, Robert The Bruce and gang breakdown a little Thursday Night Football, Major League Baseball, the JMU/Marshall game, and the the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, and more.

Big Al brings on Dennis Bickmeier and Perry Miller to discuss all things NASCAR.

It's Friday before the weekend and we're all having a good time. Dennis Bickmeier and Perry Miller join to end the hour and make NASCAR picks.

08/23/23: Perry Miller is guest hosting for Joel, and is joined in the studio by Charley Johnson, the President of the Fargo-Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau, as well as Deb Mathern, a Fargodome Reimagined Committee Chair. They have a conversation about the plans to remodel the Fargodome, which would cost for the project would run between $116 million and $140 million.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08/23/23: Guest host Perry Miller is joined by Richland County Commissioner and Midwest Council Board President, Nathan Berseth, and Former Congressman, Collin Peterson. They have a conversation about the Midwest Council, a 501(c)(6) that represents a broad coalition of agriculture interests across twelve states. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Continuing with There's a Musician in this month we watched the 2016 film Ordinary World. Written and directed by Lee Kirk. The film stars Billie Joe Armstrong in his first leading role as Perry Miller a husband and father who, in the midst of a mid-life crisis, on his 40th birthday decides to revisit his punk-rock past by throwing an extravagant party. The film as stars Judy Greer, Selma Blair, Madisyn Shipman, Dallas Roberts, Chris Messina, Fred Armisen and Brian Baumgartner. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Breeze Airways is inaugurating three new nonstop routes in two days from Richmond International Airport, including flights to Los Angeles; Cincinnati; and New York-Islip. The airline also is bringing back summer seasonal nonstop flights to Jacksonville, Florida, and Providence, Rhode Island. Celebrating the new service to Los Angeles May 18 were (pictured, front row, from left): Andy Edmunds, director of the Virginia Film Office; John Rutledge, COO of Richmond International Airport; Basil Dosunmu, CFO of Richmond International Airport; Carol Gaddis, director of IT and Innovation for Richmond International Airport; Perry Miller, president and CEO of Richmond International Airport; Jennifer Wakefield,...Article LinkSupport the show

Dr. Perry Miller is a cropping systems scientist in the Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Dept at Montana State University. A large portion of the work Dr. Miller does includes working with pulse crops and how they can make other crops, namely wheat, grow better. Part one of this episode was published as episode two in this season and focused on crop diversification and fertility. In this episode, we focus on lentil agronomics. As more and more farmers started to grow lentils in their rotation instead of summer fallow, Perry says the early lessons about growing the crops included being mindful of herbicide carryover and applying an inoculant.So you need to know what your soil residual herbicide history is because there are some persistent herbicides, and lentil tends to be a little bit the canary in the coal mine when it comes to herbicide residues. If you've got something in the soil, lentils will usually respond to it…The other easiest mistake to make is to not apply a rhizobial inoculant in a way that actually gets that bacteria in a living fashion onto the seed or into the soil in a way that can interact with lentils to help with fixed nitrogen.” - Dr. Perry MillerPerry says that most producers are familiar enough with pulse crops to avoid those common pitfalls and that most are now focusing on optimizing their operation. One interesting area that he has been exploring is rolling timing and its impact on yield. Perry mentioned that even in their trials where there was flat ground and very little rocks, rolling still seemed to be beneficial to yield. Perry has also looked at five different seeding rates and found out the recommended seeding rate, in a lot of cases, was probably not enough. “Long story short, 1.5 x seeding rate was the economic optimum by the time you considered additional seed cost and what the yield response was. So it suggests that we're probably leaving some yield potential on the table by going at our old, traditional recommended seeding rates.” - Dr. Perry MillerThis Week on Growing Pulse Crops:Follow up with Dr. Perry Miller, a cropping systems scientist in the Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Dept at Montana State University. Explore the many farming practices Perry has studied and explored to optimize the productivity of pulse cropsGrowing Pulse Crops Podcast is hosted by Tim Hammerich of the Future of Agriculture Podcast.

05/03/23: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by Perry Miller, a Richland County Commissioner. Recently, a proposed 2,000-acre solar farm by Savion (the Flickertail Solar Project) was stopped by a Richland County township through their refusal to grant a building permit. Perry addresses why this matters and affects residents and taxpayers, and answers your questions around solar farms.  Read Perry's full letter to the editor in the Wahpeton Daily News. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Fracassi is the Director of Tax Equalization for Cass County, and joins guest-host, Perry Miller, on KFGO to talk about taxes in North Dakota, including explaining property taxes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

04/27/23: Perry Miller is filling in for Joel Heitkamp, and is joined by Dan Hodgson. Dan is the CEO of WorkForce Hope in Fargo, and joins to talk about the workforce shortages and supply chain issues in the US. WorkForce Hope is a global team of trusted, proven partners in Mexico, Ukraine, and other countries that helps with work visas and immigration requirements to get more workers in the United States. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

04/27/23: Perry Miller is guest-hosting for Joel Heitkamp, and is joined in the studio by his good friend, Duane Hoff. Duane is a Crookston, MN native and went to NDSU and the University of Minnesota. Duane now lives in Napa Valley and is the proprietor of Fantesca Estate & Winery alongside his wife, Susan Hoff. Learn more about his family and winery on their website!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Perry Miller is a cropping systems scientist in the Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Dept at Montana State University. He specializes in crop diversification strategies and says a big chunk of that work includes working with pulse crops and how they can make other crops, namely wheat, grow better. In this episode, Miller discusses some of these crop diversification strategies, the benefits to including pulse crop rotations, some of the work they're doing on crop fertility and how much nitrogen benefit he's seeing from peas and lentils. “So I can best speak from the Montana perspective, and I would say the evidence is very strong that our agriculture systems have become more diversified. Farmers have become more adventurous, more risk takers than they were in the past…So yeah, our systems have diversified pretty dramatically.” - Dr. Perry MillerIn Montana, Miller has seen sharp reductions in summer fallow in no small part because peas and lentils are a viable option. One of the benefits to diversifying a rotation by adding these crops is the potential nitrogen benefits. Miller emphasizes that the benefits are real, but they aren't very predictable or as cut and dry as we might want them to be. “So what is that nitrogen benefit behind pulse crops? It's not super easy to predict, but it's real, it's common and it happens often…If you grow it once, it's hit and miss whether you're gonna get a nitrogen response behind it. The second time, especially the third time, there's been a pulse crop on that field, it seems like it's much more reliable in terms of that nitrogen response.” -Dr. Perry MillerThis Week on Growing Pulse Crops:Meet Dr. Perry Miller, cropping systems scientist in the Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Dept at Montana State UniversityExplore the strategy behind crop diversity and the advantages producers can experience by planning their crop rotations with future inputs and soil health in mind while moving away from summer fallow practicesUnderstand the impact of no-till and water infiltration in combination with strategic crop diversity as a combined effort to improve yield, sustainability and productivity of the landGrowing Pulse Crops Podcast is hosted by Tim Hammerich of the Future of Agriculture Podcast.

01/02/23: Perry Miller is guest-hosting for Joel Heitkamp, and is joined by Blaine Bruner of Bruner Angus Ranch in Drake, ND. Perry and Blaine talk about the ranch and the beef business. Check out his website here! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most traveled times of the year. Before you hop on a flight at Richmond International Airport, listen to our Henrico Happenings podcast. Airport president and CEO Perry Miller offers tips to help you get to your destination smoothly. He also shares details about projects underway at the airport that will make flying the friendly skies even better.

Perry Miller takes over See it, Stream it, Skip it... with mostly just a stream :) The Last Kingdom! We break it down during It Takes 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Eric Thompson, Sanford Health integrative health physician, joins Amy Iler and guest host host Perry Miller to talk about whether most adults are lactose intolerant and people who can drink milk as adults have a DNA mutation... ?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

07/15/22: Perry Miller is filling in for Joel Heitkamp, and joined by Jim Dotzenrod. Jim is a former state legislator, and is now running for State Senate in District 25. Perry and Jim talk about his campaign, property taxes, and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

07/15/22: Perry Miller fills in for Joel, and is joined first by Tim Friskop. Tim grew up in Wahpeton, ND and talks about his work in the Marines, time at the Miramar Air Base, and tells us how Top Gun compares to his own experiences.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

07/15/22: Elizabeth Weise is a national correspondent and Health Enterprise Reporter for USA TODAY based in San Francisco. The guest host, Perry Miller, talks with her about solar and wind energy around the country, as well as in North Dakota.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is part two of my conversation with lawyer Timon Cline (Rutgers JD, Westminster MAR) discusses the legal history of Christianity in the early American colonies. We explore the motives of the Puritans in coming to America to establish a society designed to worship God rightly. Did America have a Christian founding? Why is the federal constitution less dogmatic on Christianity than state constitutions? What is Christian nationalism? How should we feel about Christian nationalism?PART 1 Podcast - https://fullprooftheology.buzzsprout.com/1249781/10623199PART 1 YouTube - https://youtu.be/e0Jh6U5e7t4Join my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/chasedavisFollow Timon Cline - https://twitter.com/tlloydcline“The New England Mind,” Perry Miller - https://amzn.to/39rqO9WOur Distinctly Protestant States - https://americanreformer.org/2022/04/our-distinctly-protestant-states/

In this episode, lawyer Timon Cline (Rutgers JD, Westminster MAR) discusses the legal history of Christianity in the early American colonies. We explore the motives of the Puritans in coming to America to establish a society designed to worship God rightly. Did America have a Christian founding? Why is the federal constitution less dogmatic on Christianity than state constitutions? What is Christian nationalism? How should we feel about Christian nationalism?Join my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/chasedavisFollow Timon Cline - https://twitter.com/tlloydcline“The New England Mind,” Perry Miller - https://amzn.to/39rqO9WOur Distinctly Protestant States - https://americanreformer.org/2022/04/our-distinctly-protestant-states/

05/06/22 : Perry Miller is filling in for Joel and is joined by Cash Aaland, a criminal defense attorney at Aaland Law Firm in Fargo, ND. Perry and Cash dive into the details behind a North Dakota Supreme Court case regarding the diversion authority attempting quick-take eminent domain taking place in Cass County.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

05/06/22 : Perry Miller fills in for Joel, and is joined by Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski to talk about the drag racing issue in Fargo.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

03/18/22 : Perry Miller fills in for Joel, and is joined by former Senator Byron Dorgan to talk about the Russia/Ukraine war.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/18/22 : Local farmer, Terry Goerger, joins our guest host, Perry Miller, to talk about his farm and the Summit Carbon Pipeline. Earlier this week, the Richland County Commission voted to oppose the use of eminent domain when it comes to the pipeline.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/18/22 : Perry Miller is guest hosting for Joel, and joined by Tom and Kathy from the Chahinkapa Zoo in Wahpeton to talk about Corso the Bison.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/18/22 : Melanie Cheney is the Office Manager with the Missouri River Relief, and joins Perry Miller to talk about her organization, the importance of keeping our rivers and lakes clean, and how to help clean up the environment.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/18/22 : Perry Miller fills in for Joel, and sits down with Minnesota Representative Paul Marquart to talk about the Minnesota budget, tax bills, workforce shortages, and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 255 of Winnipeg Sports Talk Daily with Andrew "Hustler" Paterson and Michael Remis. They count down to the evening's Winnipeg Jets game vs. the New Jersey Devils, and count down to the upcoming trade deadline. Guests: Brandon Rewucki of the Skates & Plates podcast (20:12), Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun (55:11), and Winnipeg Jets alumni Perry Miller (1:22:26).

03/04/22 : Brandon Delvo is the Marketing Director at Williston State College, and also a Veteran. He joins our guest host, Perry Miller, to talk about a variety of topics including veterans issues and the war in Ukraine.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/04/22 : Perry Miller is joined by Dave Carlsrud while filling in for Joel. Dave Carlsrud is the Mayor of Valley City, but also worked with the North Dakota High School Activities Association for many years. Dave and Perry have a discussion about the potential of a "class C" in North Dakota sports - completely hypothetical, but a great listen nonetheless.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/04/22 : Perry Miller is filling in for Joel, and is joined by Jay Schuler to talk about the District Export Council.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Dust Bowl looms large in the minds of many good farmers. Excessive tillage combined with a decade of drought sent many feet of fertile top soil into the air, gone forever. Today's organic grain farms use tillage to control weeds and prepare the field for planting. Will organics create another Dust Bowl? Are organic farmers putting the soil at risk?Separate the wheat from the chaff and myth from reality with this episode's guests:Dr. Jessica Shade, The Organic CenterDr. Joel Gruver, Western Illinois UniversityDr. Patt Carr, Montana State UniversityDr. Perry Miller, Montana State UniversityDr. Matt Ryan, Cornell UniversityVince Jaeger, organic farmerTell us what you think about the podcast by taking this short survey.Join our email list for periodic updates about OATS such as upcoming events, new podcast episodes, and articles on timely topics in the organic grain industry.A huge thank you to our sponsors:General MillsClif BarStonyfieldKing Arthur Baking Co.Organic Valleyand our fiscal sponsor, Organic Trade AssociationMusic from Blue Dot Sessions, Epidemic Sound, Soundstripe, and Free Music Archive. Sound Effects from zapsplat.com.